Word: symptomized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...malaise de I'armée has infected probably two-thirds of France's 10,000 regular officers in Algeria; 300 generals and colonels and 1,000 majors are reported to have taken an oath not to accept Algerian independence. As a further symptom of army disease, 1,300 officers have handed in their resignations. Though the government found it almost impossible to gather evidence against officers who took part in the April 1961 revolt, eleven of its top generals were condemned to death in absentia or to prison terms. The chief of staff, General Paul Ely, resigned...
...whole being rebels at women like Mary Bunting. Her notion that women should dedicate themselves to something '"more meaningful" than marriage and motherhood is the symptom of a sick mind. Feminists like Mrs. Bunting are unwilling to face the fact that fundamental biological differences have forever determined the relationship between the sexes-the man as father, provider and protector, and his mate as mother, companion and helpmeet. Fulfilling her role successfully requires the woman's complete dedication to home and husband...
Your cover article on civil defense [Oct. 20] is perhaps both a symptom and a cause of mankind's present retreat from the idea of the obsolescence of war in the nuclear age. It seems that both we and the Russians are indeed beginning to assume our survivability as nations after such a war-if only we dig well enough beforehand. This kind of mutual self-confidence may well help to bring on the war we seek to avoid...
...preoccupation of Jean-luc Godard and other young directors with aimlessness may be a symptom for sociologists to analyze rather than reviewers. It seems clear, though, that Michelle Poiccard (Jean-Paul Belmondo), the aimless protagonist of Breatheless, is intriguing because audiences can simultaneously identify him and dismiss him as freak. The film contains little sting or criticism because Godard's semi-comic direction fosters an atmosphere of unreality, almost one of parody. Breathless is thus saved from the pseudo-philosophic qualities that the advertisers and critics have burdened it with. Godard need not and does not comment on Michelle...
...working. In the field of foreign policy, the record is sorry. When trouble has struck, the Kennedy solution has seemed to be activity instead of action, the summoning of still one more voice to the councils of cold war. Thus the Taylor appointment could be seen as a symptom of underlying administrative ills...